As the energies are settling into the New Year, we are confronted with the changes that will occur in a planetary and universal level. With the continuation of the lunation cycles, we are now experiencing the New Moon Energies in Capricorn.

The New Moon arrived on January 9th, 2016 at 5:30 PM Pacific, 8:30 PM Eastern, and January 10th at 01:30 Universal Time Zone.

It is a perfect time to have the reflection of this new moon as it represents the characteristics of preparing for our future. It is a time to fully look back on what we did not achieve in 2015 so that we can concentrate on what needs to be worked upon by attaining the goals that we desire to create in our lives.

SELF-DISCIPLINE ~ is the key word of this New Moon.

It is a time for us to dig deeper into our consciousness and truly strive on what we desire to create by looking within our sub-conscious thoughts that mold our reality. Our Higher Self cannot bring forth the dynamics of the Higher Mind if the Physical Mind is still striving for its control. This is where we can get into a danger zone as the old programming can mold who we have been instead of striving on who we are becoming.

This takes great diligence to move into the journey of self awareness and to look at the elements that truly have stopped us from achieving what we desire. We have to understand that these thoughts are not the reality of the Higher Self, but are personality disorders lodged within our Etheric Body (Soul Body) from the many realities that we have experienced in previous lifetimes. Those timelines (or moments in time) are igniting into our consciousness because we are allowing the multi-dimensional self to be part of the earth-based reality.

This is something that has not been achieved previously in any timeline on this earth. We are all parts of our-self or aspects from the many timelines which we have not rectified these issues. They are now appearing within our present reality to be addressed. Although we may not recognize that this is what they are; they seem to be coming from our present thoughts of reality and we perceive them to be substantial in our present life condition.

This is so much further from the truth. There may be parts of our personality that need to be changed from our childhood or adolescent stages, but believe me, many of these aspects we have experienced in other lifetimes. They are appearing in our subconscious so that we can heal them. They are not to be punished but to be nurtured into a healing state of existence.

This moon is allowing us to do just that with more ease and grace than we have experienced previously. It is a moon that represents “nurturing our dreams into a realistic fashion” (cafeastrology.com).

The only way that we can honestly work through these issues is to face them head-on and this is where the Self-Discipline comes into full creation.

In order to make the necessary changes we must allow our Higher Self to help us through the process. If we continually try to figure things out from our mental self, then we will still be stuck on the old merry-go-round that does not stop. We must take time for our inner-self to be blessed with the ability to relax and allow the emotional charges to run through us. They are there for a reason, and it is not because they need to be stopped; it is due to the fact that they need to be noticed and addressed.

We are also gaining much assistance with Mercury being in Retrograde since the 5th of January. Some individuals may think of this time with dread and foreboding, because it can cause havoc in our lives. But the beautiful essence of this alignment is that it is a time for true growth. As the planet Mercury is moving backwards, it teaches us to do the same thing. It is a time when the old issues will arise only to be confronted and healed, or put into wholeness as we like to say in our teachings.

This energy is giving us the grand opportunity to step into a more mature understanding of what we are experiencing. It truly represents Mastery at its core level. This energy continues through the 25th of January right after the Full Moon ignites her blessing on the 23rd/24th depending upon your time zone (1-23-15, 5:26 PM Pacific, 8:26 Eastern; 1-24-16, 01:46 UTC), and represents the sign of Leo with the sun of Aquarius. This full moon cycle takes what we have created from the New Moon and allows the creativity of our projects to be shown in the outside world. Communication efforts will be flowing more easily so that what we have experienced in the previous two weeks can be fully acknowledged. This moon will also illuminate the areas that need to be addressed so if we take the time to do the inner work now, we will be ahead of the energies by the end of the month.

My advice is to utilize the Mental Self during this time to create guidelines to help the physical self to understand what the spiritual self wants to create. Working with journaling is very important along with meditations that will take you through a new doorway. Understanding that it is a time of great movement from one stage to another is especially important to allow the spiritual self to have a more integrated effort within the full-body system.

Take this time to truly allow your creativity to take you through the old parts of your-self that you do not want to experience. Making a Vision Board is a fun way to utilize and manifest your desires while you are moving from the old energies into the new. It is always exciting to look for pictures that depict what we want to achieve in our lives and put them together in a collage’ so that we can view it all through the year. What is actually more enthralling is to see the manifestations occur.

In summation, we are stepping into a new world of transformation but the transition from the old essence must be acknowledged in order for the movement into the new essence can be accepted. It is a most powerful time of acceleration but the work truly needs to be done first within our psychological self so the spiritual self can fully walk through the next doorway of reality.